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> "Since information technology products work in systems, switching any single product can cost users dearly. The lock-in that results from such switching costs

> "Since information technology products work in systems, switching any single product can cost users dearly. The lock-in that results from such switching costs confers a huge competitive advantage to firms that manage their installed base of customers effectively." Note that this still applies in the world of free-libre software, such as when installing a printer forces you to change your init system: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=863974 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=863974

JoeyBananas 6y ago
This is what that bug report says: > HPLIP requires PolicyKit, PolicyKit requires libpam-systemd. And it does not switch init systems, it just installs the systemd package.
- dane-pgp 6y ago
  > requires libpam-systemd which depends[0] on systemd-sysv, which "will overwrite /sbin/init with a link to systemd."[1] [0] https://packages.debian.org/sid/libpam-systemd https://packages.debian.org/sid/libpam-systemd [1] https://packages.debian.org/sid/systemd-sysv https://packages.debian.org/sid/systemd-sysv